Crispin Cowan

Director of Software Engineering,
Novell/SUSE

Crispin Cowan was the CTO and founder of Immunix, Inc., acquired by Novell
in 2005, and now works as a the security architect for SUSE Linux. At
Immunix, he lead the development of AppArmor, as well as the StackGuard
compiler defense against buffer overflows, and the LSM (Linux Security
Modules) interface in Linux 2.6. He was previously a computer science
professor, and has a Ph.D. from the University of Western Ontario and
a Masters degree from the University of Waterloo.